[OpenAFS] re-installing a "lost" volume

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 21:21:44 +0100 Ian Delahorne <ian@assv.net> 
wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:23 -0800, Gabe Castillo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   I have had a data-loss issue on the RAID with the root AFS volume. I
>> have recovered the data, and transferred it to a different fileserver. I
>> am curious if I can modify the VLDB to tell AFS that the volume is on a
>> different machine. Does this pose any potential problems (particularly
>> because the volume isn't available when I have to modify the VLDB)?  If
>> this is unsuccessful is there a problem with modifying the VLDB back to
>> its original setup?
>
> vos changeaddr

Actually, vos changeaddr is for telling the VLDB that a server's 
address(es) have changed.  If that's what happened, then go ahead and use 
it.  Otherwise, you want to use vos syncvldb to resync just the volume(s) 
or partitions(s) that moved to a new server.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA